Imagine There`s No Google

Imagine there's no Google, and no search engines, too. The Beatles never imagined such a world, but it can be quite instructive if you do. What, exactly, would you do differently if you couldn't depend on the search engines to bring you traffic?Mike Moran raised that question recently over at Search Engine Guide. He acknowledged that we've had the World Wide Web for more than 15 years now, and search engines of one kind or another for most of that time. So this may seem a little unrealistic to ask now. Still, you probably spend a lot of time focused on tasks like keyword research, putting out press releases, adding new content, etc. How much of that is for visitors, and how much is for the search engines? How much of it would you do if you couldn't depend on Google sniffing by your website and bringing human visitors to it later? There WAS a time, however brief, before sea...